The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-05
Lecai Boards OF Health.

The recent legislslu re passed an act lin
iting and defining the duties of local
boards of health. For the benefit of our
readers the following extracts from it are
here given:
-. And be it enacted, That the said To-
cal boards of health shall have power to
pass, alter or amend ordinances, and make
rules and regulations in regard to the pub
lie health within their several Jurisdictions,
for the following purposese but such ordi-
nance shall have three readings before its
final passage. and at least one week shall
intervene between the second and third
readings of said ordinance and a notice
stating the title of said ordinance and the
date when it passed its second reading,
shall be published at least one week prior
to its final passage in at least one news
paper published in the township, city,
town, borough, or other local municipal
government, if any newspaper is published
therein, and if there be no newspaper pub
lished therein, then in some newspaper in
the county circulating in sl.ch township,
city, town, borough, or other local NUM-
cipal government:
I. To aid in the enforcement of the law
rs to the adulteration of all kinds of food
and drink, and to prevent the sale or ex-
posure for sale of any kind of meat or veg
etable that is unwholcsome or UNIT for
food;
II. To define and declare what shall
constitute nuisances.i in lots, streets, docks,
wharves, vessels and piers and all public
or private places;
III. To prevent the spreading of dan
gerous epidemics or contagious diseases,
and to declare that the same has become
epidemic, and to maintain and enforce
proper and sufficient quarantine whenever
deemed necessary;
". To regulate, control and prohibit
the keeping or Strengthening of all kinds of
animals;
v. To regulate, control and prohibit
the accumulation of offal and all decaying
or vegetable substances;
VI. To prohibit and remove any often
sive matter or abate any nuisance in any
public highway, road, street, avenue, al
ley, or other place, public or private, and
to cause the removal OF the same at the ex-
pense of the owner;
VII. To compel the return of all births,
deaths and marriages by physicians, mid
wives, nurses, %clergymen, magistrates and
other persons professionally officiating at
such death. birth or marriage.
VIII. To secure the sanitary condition
of tenement houses, jails, prisons and all
public buildings.
IX. To regulate, control or prohibit the
cleaning of sewers, the dumping of gar
bage, the filling of sunken lots or marsh
lands, and to provide for the filling mp of
such lots or lands.
In addition to the powers above enumer-
ated all local boards of health except
township boards shall have further power
in like manne
NJ ron,,taEa a nd control tho mathnH
of construction, the location, the method
and manner of employing or cleaning, and
the frequency of cleaning of cesspools and
p~rivies;
II. To regulate and control the mode OF
connection of house-drainage and plumb
ing with outside sewers, cesspools and
other receptacles;
III. To protect the public water sup
ply and prevent the pollution of any stream
of water or well, the water of which is
used for domestic purposes, and to order
not to be used or closed, any well, the
water of which is polluted or detrimental
to public health;
~. To remov persons infected to a
suitable place, in case of contagious or in
fictitious disease, where, in the judgement
of the board, such removal is necessary
and can be accomplished without undue
risk to the person or persons diseased, and
to disinfect the premises when deemed
necessary;
V. To regulate the burial and disin-
torment of human bodies.
IS. And be it enacted, That any such
board of health may prescribe a penalty
for the violation OF any of their ordinances
or sections OF any code they make and or
dain as aforesaid, not to exceed ono hun-
dred dollars and not less than ten dollars.
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Travellers on our railroad last week
probably noticed a palace car on the side
track at Woodbury.. The car is owned by
G.. G.. Green, the millionaire at that place,
and is said to have cost nearly slS,0OO.